Word: hay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fool or a knave at the driving wheel of a motor vehicle is far more dangerous both to the public and to himself than a fool or a knave on the driver's seat of a hay wagon. Hence, on this latter-day road, the crucial challenge is no longer technological but psychological. . . . The old challenge of physical distance has been transmuted into a new challenge of human relations between drivers who have learned how to 'annihilate distance' and have thereby put themselves in constant danger of annihilating one another...
...hay fever did not get the best of him, big, easy-going Dave ("Boo") Ferriss of the pennant-bound Boston Red Sox had a strong chance in his second year in the majors. Last week Ferriss showed no signs of sniffles as he polished off his 20 and 21st victories...
Other crop reports made great expectations greater. In prospect are record yields of peaches, plums, truck produce and tobacco, near record yields of oats, rice, peanuts, potatoes, pears, grapes, cherries and sugar cane; average or better yields of hay, prunes, sugar beets and dry peas. July's milk production was up to 11,956,000,000 lbs., more than one billion higher than a ten-year (1935-44) average for the month; July egg production was up an astronomical 4,221,000,000, more than a half billion better than the ten-year average...
...Door. In spite of his bitter news, Italy's Constituent Assembly cheered him when he addressed it in Italian, sprinkled with Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é paglia-that ain't hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus. To an aide, La Guardia whispered: "Is this for keeps?" When the aide nodded yes, LaGuardia smiled, patted the she-wolf on the rump and said: "This beats anything we ever gave away at City...
Just marketed, and discussed last week in the Journal of Allergy, was another new hay fever drug called Benadryl. Experiments have indicated that Benadryl is an all-or-none drug; it gives complete relief to some 50% to 85% of allergy victims, helps the rest of them not a bit. When it works, it relieves both rashes and runny noses, sometimes makes patients drowsy, must be taken every few hours in capsule form...